2018 ICA Rectors and Deans Forum programme
High Tech to Feed the World Sustainably: Innovation from Spade to Fork
Wednesday 24 to Friday 26 October 2018
was held at Wageningen University and Research
Programme
Wednesday 24 October at the Fletcher Hotel-Restaurant De Wageningsche Berg
| 16.30 | Coffee for those attending the ICA General Assembly |
| 17.00 | ICA General Assembly |
| 19.30 | GA Closure |
| 20.00 | ICA Forum Reception and Walking Dinner |
Thursday 25 October at the Wageningen University Campus
Session 1: The potential and challenges of high tech in agriculture and the food value chain
| 8.50 | Welcome Marek S Szyndel, President of ICA and Warsaw University of Life Sciences Arthur Mol, Rector Magnificus, Wageningen University and Research |
| Chair: Antanas Maziliauskas, Aleksandras Stulginskis University (ASU), LT | |
| 9.10 | Keynote 1: Big data opportunities for food and agriculture: research and education challenges Kevin McDonnell, University College Dublin, IE |
| 9.45 | Keynote 2: Precision Farming: advances in high tech, data-driven agriculture at field, farm and regional level Corne Kempenaar, Senior Scientist Agrosystems Research, Wageningen University and Research, NL |
| 10.20 | Coffee |
| 10.45 | Keynote 3: High Tech in the Food Value Chain – non-invasive sensing of food quality in manufacturing, distribution and retail Wouter Saeys, Department of Biosystems, MeBioS-Biophotonics, KULeuven, BE |
| 11.20 | Keynote 4: High Tech in the Food Value Chain - digitisation in industrial food processing and packaging Marc Mauermann, Deputy Director Division Processing Technology Dresden, Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, DE |
| 12.00 | Lunch |
| 12.30 | Visit to Wageningen University's High Tech Greenhouses Research Facilities with short presentations of ongoing research - more details |
Session 2: Issues in the responsible use new technology and big data, for consideration by universities in responding to their mission in education, research and management
| Chair: Richard Visser, Wageningen University and Research, NL | |
| 14.00 | Keynote 5: Key challenges in the management of Big Data – for the institution and the indivdual Barteld Braaksma, Innovation Manager, Statistics Netherlands, NL |
| 14.30 | Keynote 6: Ethical issues relating to the application of Big Data Andreas Jedlitschka, Head of Department Data Engineering, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), DE (TBC) |
| 15.00 | Keynote 7: Legal issues relating to the use of high tech – as exemplified by novel plant breeding technologies Petra Jorasch, Manager Plant Breeding and Innovation Advocacy, European Seed Association, BE |
| 15.30 | Coffee |
| 16.00 | Short interventions |
| 16.30 | Roundtable Discussion session |
| 17.30 | Report back |
| 18.00 | Closure |
| 20.00 | ICA Forum Dinner - celebrating 30 years of the Association Speech: Dr Christian Patermann, International Bioeconomy Adviser |
Friday 26 October at the Fletcher Hotel-Restaurant De Wageningsche Berg
Session 3: The Strategic and Policy role of Life Science Universities in applying High Tech to address the challenge of achieving global food and nutrition security in a sustainable world
| Chair: Marek S Szyndel, President of ICA & Warsaw University of Life Sciences, PL | |
| 9.00 | Keynote 8: Strategic Industry 4.0 – agriculture/forestry 4.0 – university 4.0? Strategic policy at BOKU to address digitisation Martin Gerzabek, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, AT |
| 9.30 | Keynote 9: CASE IH Agriculture 4.0 Vik Vandecaveye, Precision Solutions & Telematics division, Case IH Agricultural Business |
| 10.00 | Keynote 10: Objectives and considerations of (Big) data science education in Life Sciences domain Lukasz Grus, Wageningen Data Competence Centre, Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing Wageningen University and Research, NL |
| 10.30 | Coffee |
| 11.00 | Roundtable Discussion session |
| 12.00 | Report Back |
| 12.30 | Closure |
| 13.00 | Lunch |